it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.